“I found this particular interesting to discuss with companies I didn’t know beforehand” reports Marnix Botte, BiR&D Chairman. “Some companies brought more a continuation type of ideas, but some were bringing real disruptive ideas.

Agenda was composed of 2 major blocks :

Pitching of the start-ups / scale-ups / SMEs of their company

One-to-one meetings with corporates to see if there is a possibility for cooperation.

If you want to know more about the initiative or to participate to similar events to come, you can

go to the official site of the Commission https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/sme-instrument